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WORLD CUP & EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
IOF World Cup and European Orienteering Championships
The world orienteering elite return to the forest at EOC.
World Cup Round 2 - Long Distance - Emily Sorensen.
Following a northern spring and early summer with the focus on Sprint competitions at the World Cup Round 1 in Sweden and WOC in Denmark, it was time to return to the forest for the European Orienteering Championships in Estonia. The championships also served as Round 2 in the Orienteering World Cup. As with many other competitions, the EOC in Estonia was originally scheduled for 2020 but postponed due to the corona pandemic. So finally, the rather flat forest terrain in Northeastern Estonia with very varied runnability was ready to welcome around 300 athletes from around the world. It was the first EOC forest competitions since the 2018 Championships, and the flat and often dense and “bushy” Estonian terrain outside Rakvere seemed to be a perfect match for the Nordic teams in particular. But it turned out that none of the runners could claim to have a perfect race in the tricky terrain with very low visibility in some parts. All competition days used different parts of the same terrain, which had typical moraine features (eskers, kames, drumlins) with a height difference of 20‑30 metres. There were many hillocks and depressions with depths and heights up to 10 metres, with varied vegetation including large marshes and areas of low visibility. Australia had just two representatives at Round 1 in Sweden, but for Round 2 in Estonia we fielded a team of 12. Tim Robertson was New Zealand’s stand‑out sprinter in Sweden, but he didn’t enter the events in Estonia.
World Cup Round 2 Middle Distance Final - Aston Key.
PÕLULA
Scale 1:10000 Contours 5m
Round 1, Sweden, results
SPRINT – Women (3.9km)
Place Name Time Diff 66 Penelope Salmon NZ 18:51 +3:01 99 Olivia Sprod AUS 21:23 +5:33
SPRINT – Men (4.3km)
2 Tim Robertson NZ 15:46 +0:06 30 Aston Key AUS 16:51 +1:11 81 Joseph Lynch NZ 18:00 +2:20
KO Sprint – Men (2.0km)
2 Tim Robertson NZ 7:22 +0:01
World Cup Round 2 Estonia Middle Distance Final Aston Key route MIDDLE DISTANCE Qualifying – Men (4.7km)
Place Name Time Diff 6 Aston Key AUS 31:20 +1:25 26 Alastair George AUS 35:44 +6:19 41 Toby Scott NZ 51:59 +22:34 --- Angus Haines AUS mp 33 Brodie Nankervis AUS 38:53 +10:07 44 Tristan Miller AUS 49:45 +20:59 38 Ewan Shingler AUS 42:33 +12:38
MIDDLE DISTANCE Qual – Women (4.2km)
31 Olivia Sprod AUS 54:47 +23:02 --- Mikayla Cooper AUS mp 34 Michele Dawson AUS 52:59 +22:01 35 Julia Gannon AUS 54:49 +23:51 27 Briana Steven NZ 48:20 +17:45 33 Emily Sorensen AUS 57:50 +27:15 36 Caitlin Young AUS 1:01:36 +31:01
MIDDLE DISTANCE A Final – Men (6.3km)
32 Aston Key AUS 42:13 +6:33
MIDDLE DISTANCE B Final – Men (5.9km)
9 Alastair George AUS 40:54 +3:47 19 Toby Scott NZ 42:11 +5:04 29 Brodie Nankervis AUS 44:01 +6:54 44 Angus Haines AUS 49:48 +12:41 52 Ewan Shingler AUS 51:11 +14:04 59 Tristan Miller AUS 56:38 +19:31
MIDDLE DISTANCE B Final – Women (5.4km)
26 Caitlin Young AUS 57:44 +16:47 28 Michele Dawson AUS 59:28 +18:31 33 Olivia Sprod AUS 1:01:37 +20:40 35 Briana Steven NZ 1:03:31 +22:34 37 Emily Sorensen AUS 1:03:45 +22:48 40 Mikayla Cooper AUS 1:07:43 +26:46 44 Julia Gannon AUS 1:26:41 +45:44
Round 2, Estonia, results
LONG DISTANCE – Men (17.3km)
Place Name Time Diff 57 Toby Scott NZ 2:11:43 +32:25 65 Angus Haines AUS 2:15:10 +35:52 83 Aston Key AUS 2:26:00 +46:42 97 Brodie Nankervis AUS 2:44:41 +1:05:23 98 Ewan Shingler AUS 2:45:11 +1:05:53 100 Alastair George AUS 2:46:36 +1:07:18
LONG DISTANCE – Women (12.9km)
77 Emily Sorensen AUS 2:30:29 +1:00:37 79 Briana Steven NZ 2:33:34 +1:03:42 --- Caitlin Young AUS mp An astonishing 19 men and 8 women mispunched in the Long Distance races.
RELAY – Men (6.5km)
Pll Name
Leg L pl Leg diff Time
30 Australia 1 2:09:50
Aston Key 36:55 7 +0:36 36:55 Brodie Nankervis 47:50 37 +13:32 1:24:45 Alastair George 45:05 33 +11:02 2:09:50
43 Australia 2 2:57:34
Angus Haines 37:46 13 +1:27 37:46 Ewan Shingler 1:06:19 46 +32:01 1:44:05 Tristan Miller 1:13:29 43 +39:26 2:57:34
RELAY – Women (5.5km)
32 Australia 2 3:05:03
Emily Sorensen 1:03:25 36 +25:30 1:03:25
Mikayla Cooper 55:16 37 +19:08 1:58:41
Julia Gannon 1:06:22 32 +32:00 3:05:03
